Red Nails

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"Red Nails" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine circa July – October 1936. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. The story has most recently been republished in the collection Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three (1935-1936) (Del Rey, 2005). Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his best tales.

[edit] Adaptations

The story was later adapted by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith for issues #2-3 of the Marvel Comics magazine series Savage Tales. The Thomas/Smith tale was later reprinted in the 1987 black-and-white magazine Conan Saga.